Name: Koko
Author: Peter Straub
ISBN: 9780307472205

About this book

Koko opens the trilogy in 1988 at 562 pages and won the World Fantasy Award, following four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as murders across Asia.

Key facts about Koko

Peter Straub wrote Koko, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 1988. The book has 562 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307472205 to find the main one.

Koko is book 1 of 3 in the Blue Rose Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Throat is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 January 1993.

Additionally, Peter Straub writes The Talisman as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy horror and horror shelves. Meanwhile, Other Worlds Than These is the latest published Peter Straub book on file, from 6 October 2026.

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub was an American author widely regarded as one of the most literary voices in modern horror fiction, known for novels including Ghost Story and Julia, and for his close friendship and creative partnership with Stephen King. See every Peter Straub book in order.

Its place in Blue Rose Trilogy

Koko is book 1 in the Blue Rose Trilogy series. It is followed by Mystery. See the full Blue Rose Trilogy reading order.

The Blue Rose Trilogy is Peter Straub's loosely connected sequence of literary horror-mysteries, named for the words a killer leaves scrawled at each of his crime scenes in the shared fictional town of Millhaven, Illinois. Koko (1988), which won the World Fantasy Award, follows four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as a string of murders across Asia, each signed with the name "Koko." Mystery (1990) shifts focus to Tom Pasmore, a young boy who…

Editions

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